Today we’re going to be looking at the most common and colloquial term for food in Italian: cibo (masculine, plural: cibi). Derived from the Latin cibus meaning food, it refers to any nutritious substance that living organisms eat or drink. In Italy, life revolves around the preparation and enjoyment of good food (cibo buono / …
The Italian word for easy or simple is facile. As you’ve probably guessed, it shares the same origin as the English word facile (meaning simplistic). Both come from the Latin facilis meaning easy. The singular facile is used to describe both masculine and feminine subjects and there is only one plural (facili). Non è facile …
The Italian equivalent of the verb to breathe in English is respirare. It shares the same origin as the verb to respire, the less used synonym of to breathe. Respirare is an -ARE verb that is conjugated in the following way in the present tense: Faccio fatica a respirare quando corro. I find it hard …
Every year on June 2nd, Italians celebrate la Festa della Repubblica – known as Republic Day in English – which is the name of the Italian national day. It celebrates the institutional referendum held just a year after the end of the Second World War, in which the Italian people voted to abolish the monarchy …
What has become predominantly a single word in English (forever) is actually two words in Italian: the preposition per (for) + sempre (always / still / increasingly). Below are a few common verbs you’ll see used with per sempre: Chi vuole vivere per sempre? Who wants to live forever? Some possible synonyms for per sempre …
The word pecora (feminine, plural: pecore) is the common name for all bovine mammals of the genus Ovis, comprising six wild species and numerous domestic breeds. It is also the specific term for the female adult sheep. The male is known as montone or ariete (ram) whereas the offspring is called agnello (lamb) up to …